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Spring Ford Country Club

Course Information
Club Type: Private
Founded:1924
Architect:J. Franklin Meehan
General Information
Address: 48 Country Club Rd.
Royersford, PA  19468
Phone:(610) 948-0580
Fax:(610) 948-4468
Website:www.springfordcc.org
Email:rich@springfordcc.org
Club Contacts
  Golf Professional:   Rich Steinmetz   (610) 948-8770 
  General Manager:   Ira Berkowitz   (610) 948-0580 
  Superintendent:   Mark Rubbo   (610) 948-6615 
Club Events
2021 Apr 29  GAP Middle-Amateur Championship Qualifier   
2020 Aug 18  GAP Middle-Amateur Championship Qualifying 
2019 Apr 2  GAP Winter Series Event - 4   
2019 Aug 1  GAP Senior Four-Ball Stroke Play   
2017 May 4  GAP Francis B. Warner Cup (Gross)   
2017 Jun 19  GAP Junior Boys’ Championship   
2016 Jun 2  GAP Father & Son (Middle)   
2015 Jun 4  GAP Tee it Forward - Spring Net Championship   
2014 May 27  GAP Francis B. Warner Cup - Net   
2013 Apr 2  GAP Winter Series Event - Spring Ford Country Club   
2013 Sep 19  GAP Marston Cup   
2012 Jul 12  GAP Senior Four-Man Team   
2011 Aug 25  GAP Four-Ball Stroke Play Championship   
2010 Sep 2  GAP Senior 27-Hole Challenge   
2009 May 6  GAP Middle-Amateur Championship Qualifier   
2008 Jun 23  GAP Open Championship Qualifier   
2007 Sep 27  GAP Volunteers Day   
2005 May 5  GAP Francis B. Warner Cup   
2003 Aug 14  GAP Patterson Cup   

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Course Yardage & Ratings
Handicap Conversion Charts:  [Mens]  [Womens]

RED TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.5 126  33.6  121 67.1 124 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444354345364444353453672
 Yards 410353313120423273153297429277132429529529213342417132539126505421
 HCP 3111917131557 21412818416106  
PIF TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  30.5 105  31.3  108 61.8 107 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444354345364444353453672
 Yards 27325022511534520075240310203321525324322911535016026234021674200
 HCP 3111917131557 21412818416106  
BLUE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  35.3 133  35.8  130 71.1 132 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444354345364444353453672
 Yards 430397375134505304177341512317539833235934515648719339348431476322
 HCP 3111917131557 21412818416106  
BLACK TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  36.0 136  36.4  132 72.4 134 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444354345364444353453672
 Yards 450417383145516313197367531331940834637835416450720840251132786597
 HCP 3111917131557 21412818416106  
WHITE TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  34.4 130  35.0  127 69.4 129 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444354345364444353453672
 Yards 414357335134445304177298512297632833235929615648719332948429645940
 HCP 3111917131557 21412818416106  
GOLD TEESFront 9Back 9Course
RatingSlopeRatingSlopeRatingSlope
  Men  33.8 127  34.1  123 67.9 125 
 HOLE123456789OUT101112131415161718INTOTAL
 Par 444354345364444353453672
 Yards 414357335125445277154298433283832831335129614042717632939727575595
 HCP 3111917131557 21412818416106  
History
It was in mid-July of 1924 that a group of 11 men from the Spring City and Royersford area got together to discuss the formation of a country club to serve the two communities. They were perhaps mindful of the fact that neighboring Phoenixville had been enjoying its own club for almost 10 years. On Aug. 22, the Spring Ford Country Club was organized. Officers elected were as follows: Charles S. Wagoner, president; L.E. Johnson, vice president; W. Paul Youngblud, secretary; H. Fred Grander, treasurer. At the same time, a board of governors was elected consisting of the following members: Dr. Joseph A. Buckwalter, A.L. Buckwalter, Dr. E.M. Vaughn, F.J. Stephenson, R.C. Jones, Paul L. Mowery, Charles P. Floyd, Morgan J. Edwards, and F.H. Deisher.

1951 photo of Spring-Ford’s clubhouse, which dates to 1928.
The next item on the agenda was finding a location for the fledgling club. A site selection committee was appointed. One month later, the committee was back with its recommendation: the Samuel Gottschall Farm, along Reifsnyder Road in Limerick Township, near Royersford. It consisted of 114 acres of attractively rolling land with a creek winding through much of it. The club promptly acquired the property, then retained J. Franklin Meehan, architect of North Hills and Ashbourne, to design the course. Clarence Wood, with 14 years’ experience at Whitemarsh Valley, was hired as head groundskeeper. The farmhouse was pressed into service as a clubhouse to accommodate the 53 original members, but plans to enlarge and remodel the structure were quickly developed and that project given the go-ahead.
Although Meehan’s plan called for 18 holes, only nine were built at that time. Total yardage was 3,430, with a par of 37. It would be a full 30 years before the second nine was added, in 1957, giving Spring-Ford a course which, from the back tees, measures 6,742 yards, has a 72.5 course rating and a Slope of 137, among the half-dozen highest in the district.
It was on Saturday, May 8, 1925, at 1:30 p.m. that Spring-Ford Country Club officially opened its nine-hole course, using temporary greens. President Wagoner struck the first ball as he, A.L. Buckwalter, R.C. Jones, and Chester Bush teed off in the first official foursome. Some five weeks later, with the club not quite in a position to employ its own professional, arrangements were made for Mr. Thompson, professional at Plymouth Country Club, to come to SpringFord on Mondays and Thursdays from 4 to 8 p.m. in order to give lessons.
The club’s first competition—unofficial because of the temporary greens—was a low net tournament for all members on August 22, 1925. The winner and score are not a matter of record, but first prize is: a box of eight U.S. Royal golf balls. The first official competition was conducted eight months later, on May 28, 1926. The entire membership, now up to 104, took part in what was designated a "Mashie-Niblick Tournament." Contestants were permitted to use only a 7-iron and a putter.
Just about a year and a half later, on November 8,1927, the clubhouse all but burned to the ground. Five weeks after that, a second fire destroyed the shed that housed the maintenance equipment. The members took both blows in stride, and the club soon voted to build a new clubhouse. The handsome structure, set imposingly on the hill north of the 9th fairway, opened amid jubilation on New Year’s Eve, 1928. The Depression years, which lay immediately ahead, brought further adversity, but the Spring-Ford membership, nothing if not resilient, would weather these troubles as well and continue to take pleasure in their club and its course.

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